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"text": "Chalk it up to fear that he didn't finish.",
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"ref": "1990 October 5, “Souter plans to get right down to work”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, volume 85, number 154, section 1, page 14",
"text": "“You can chalk it up maybe to, as one of my friends says, a nautical superstition,” he said. “Maybe I read too many Greek tragedies. I don't believe something’s going to happen like that until it’s happened.",
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"ref": "2013 August 28, Derek Thompson, “How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma”, in The Atlantic",
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To attribute or account for something; to ascribe."
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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{
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "atribuír"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "incolpare"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "it",
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"word": "addossare la colpa su"
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"word": "atribuir"
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{
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "přičíst pf co čemu"
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "toeschrijven"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "laittaa jonkin piikkiin"
},
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "syyttää"
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "attribuer la responsabilité"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "attribuer le mérite"
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "atribuír"
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "incolpare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "dare la responsabilità a"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "attribuire"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "addebitare"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "addossare la colpa su"
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{
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
"word": "atribuir"
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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"sense": "idiomatic: to attribute something to something",
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"word": "chalk up to"
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